List: 1799 births

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•  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer and philosopher who left a legacy of forward-thinking social ideas.

  

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•  Mary Anning

  Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 – March 9, 1847) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist. Due to her skill in locating and preparing fossils, as well as the richness of the Jurassic era marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis where she lived, she made a number of important finds.

  

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•  Oscar I of Sweden

  Oscar I, born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte (4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859), was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm (June 1811). Oscar's father was the first ruler of the current House of Bernadotte. Oscar's mother was Désirée Clary, Napoleon Bonaparte's first fiancée.

  

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•  Honoré de Balzac

  Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels, short stories and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature.

  

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•  Alexander Pushkin

  Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (June 6 1799–February 10 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers. He also wrote historical fiction.

  

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•  Prosper Ménière

  Prosper Ménière (18 June 1799 – 7 February 1862), born in Angers, France. Ménière waslycée and university educated where he excelled at humanities and classics. He completed his gold medal in medical studies at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1826, and his M.D. in 1828 where he then assisted Guillaume Dupuytren. Ménière was originally set to be an assistant professor in faculty, but political tensions disturbed his professorship and he was sent to control the spread of cholera.

  

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•  James Bowman Lindsay

  James Bowman Lindsay (8 September 1799 - 29 June 1862) was a Scottish inventor and author. He is credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and telegraphy.

  

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•  David Douglas

  David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died.

  

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•  Dred Scott

  Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858), was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, but he followed his master Dr.

  

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•  Joachim Barrande

  Joachim Barrande (August 11, 1799 – October 5, 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris.

  

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•  Jedediah Smith

  Jedediah Strong Smith (born January 6, 1799 or June 24, 1798 — presumed date of death May 27, 1831) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the nineteenth century. He was the fourth of twelve children. " Jedediah Smith's explorations were significant in opening the American West to expansion by white settlers.

  

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•  Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille

  Jean Louis Marie PoiseuilleBorn 22 April 1797 (1797-04-22)ParisDied {26 December 1869 (aged 72)ParisNationality FrenchFields physician and physiologistAlma mater École PolytechniqueKnown for Poiseuille's law Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille \pwä-'zəi\ (22 April 1797 - 26 December 1869) was a French physician and physiologist. Poiseuille was born in Paris, France. From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.

  

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•  Friedrich Tholuck

  Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (March 30, 1799 - June 10, 1877), known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader. He was born at Breslau, and educated at the gymnasium and university there. He distinguished himself by his ability to learn languages.

  

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•  Nicolas Eugène Géruzez

  Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (January 6, 1799 - May 29, 1865), was a French critic. He was born at Reims. He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature.

  

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•  Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron

  Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26 February 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.

  

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•  Marie Roch Louis Reybaud

  Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (15 August 1799 - 28 October 1879), French writer, political economist and politician, was born at Marseille. After travelling in the Levant and in India, he settled in Paris in 1829. Besides writing for the Radical press, he edited the Histoire scientifique et militaire de l’expédition française en Egypte in ten volumes (1830-36) and Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au tour du monde (1833).

  

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•  Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

  Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (February 28, 1799 – January 14, 1890) was a German theologian, Catholic priest and church historian who rejected the dogma of papal infallibility. He is considered an important contributor to the doctrine, growth and development of the Old Catholic Church.

  

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•  John Moultrie

  John Moultrie (December 30, 1799 - December 26, 1874) was an English poet. He was born in London and educated at Eton College, and many of his best verses were contributed to the Etonian. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1819, and in 1822 entered the Middle Temple. Three years later he was ordained, and was presented to the living of Rugby by Lord Craven. At Rugby he became friends with Thomas Arnold, to whom two of his sonnets are addressed.

  

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•  Richard Rothe

  Richard Rothe (28 January 1799 - 20 August 1867) was a German Lutheran theologian.

  

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•  Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

  Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley. His record was unusual, since he is one of only four British Prime Ministers to have three or more separate periods in office.

  

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•  Henri Druey

  Daniel-Henri Druey (April 12, 1799 – March 29, 1855) was a Swiss politician of the 19th century and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland.

  

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•  Thomas Hood

  Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.

  

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•  Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham

  Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, PC (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British politician and the first Governor of the united Province of Canada.

  

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•  Isaac Murphy

  Isaac Murphy (born October 16, 1799 or 1802 - died September 8, 1882) was the first Reconstruction Governor of Arkansas. He was the first reconstruction governor to come to power under President Abraham Lincoln's conciliatory policy. Unlike some other reconstruction administrations the Murphy administration was characterized by fiscal restraint and conciliatory attitude towards the soon to be defeated Confederates.

  

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•  Nicholas Harris Nicolas

  Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, KCMG, KH (March 10, 1799 - August 3, 1848) was an English antiquary. The fourth son of John Harris Nicolas (died 1844), he was born at Dartmouth. Having served in the navy from 1812 to 1816, he studied law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1825. His work as a barrister was confined principally to peerage cases before the House of Lords, and he devoted the rest of his time to the study of genealogy and history.

  

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